Re: A very basic question

2006-02-10 Thread Avinash Sridhar
Hello again, Thanks for the tip, indeed it is the backquote vs the single quote issue, looked deeper into the program and observed, they did mention to be careful on this. thanks On 2/10/06, Chas Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2/10/06, Avinash Sridhar <[EMAIL PR

Re: A very basic question

2006-02-10 Thread Avinash Sridhar
-u -f atan2'; foreach (@lines){ s/\w<([^>]+)>/\U$1/g; print; } but all i get is perldoc -u -f atan2 as the output. Am i missing something. thanks for looking in On 2/10/06, Brian Volk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -Original Message-

Re: Continuing the Basic Question

2006-02-09 Thread Avinash Sridhar
the space did the trick :( On 2/9/06, Avinash Sridhar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the useful tip, I did manage to run the simple hello world > program > > thanks again > > On 2/9/06, John Bruin < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: Continuing the Basic Question

2006-02-09 Thread Avinash Sridhar
> To: John Bruin > > Cc: 'Avinash Sridhar'; beginners@perl.org > > Subject: RE: Continuing the Basic Question > > > > On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 11:30 +1300, John Bruin wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > > > From: Avinash Sridhar

Continuing the Basic Question

2006-02-09 Thread Avinash Sridhar
Hello, I installed ActivePerl, then wrote up a sample helloworld.pl script, stored it on the desktop, then ran this command from the cmd prompt. C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator> perl C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\ helloworld.pl i.e., perl \ filename.pl (is this right?)

A very basic question

2006-02-09 Thread Avinash Sridhar
Hello All, I just joined this forum today and I dont know whether this particular question has been posted before. If it is please do let me know where i can get the answer from. I am using a Windows XP Professional box. Want to learn perl, how do i go about downloading the perl interpreter